BUKHARIN, NIKOLAI. The Economic Theory of the Leisure Class. Pp. 220. Price, $2.50. New York: International Publishers, 1927

• Author: Clair Wilcox
• Published date: 01 September 1928
• Date: 01 September 1928
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/000271622813900138

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avows any economic faith of his own, it
of surplus value, concentration and revolu-
seems fairly clear that his heart is here.
tion, confirmed by experience, establish
&dquo;If Veblen is the Messiah&dquo; of institutional
him as the legitimate heir of the classical
economics, he tells us, &dquo;Mitchell is at least
tradition in economic science.
the high priest,&dquo; and it is to the application
Thus our author achieves his victory
of statistical technique to the solution of
over the liberal economists by exhuming the
specific institutional problems, that he
corpse of Bohm-Bawerk and valiantly
seems to look for the development of eco-
running it...